Tired of hearing people moaning about road based Supermonos being uncompetitive Mike Edwards is going to try and take a £454 motorcycle bought from Ebay and with a limited budget contest the British Supermono Championship.
The bike's named 'Gordon'; been totally stripped down, rebuilt, and is now racing, so the concept is well on it's way to completion.

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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Peter Day has very kindly offered to rebuild Gordon over the 'festive' period.

After taking him to Peter's house, Gordon was very excited to be back with someone who actually was bothered about him - he is very grumpy that I seem to have ignored him since he spat me off at Cadwell...

Monday, October 29, 2007

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Sunday, October 07, 2007

Unfortunately the time table was changed and that meant that we were called to the holding area while the karts were still on track.We did have to wait for quite a while, and all I can think is that my tyres cooled off.Got a great start.Gordon gets off the line like a rocket.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Got a great start and led the race for the first four laps. Mark got past and then I took the lead again. Only to get the oil flag. Gordon was smoking big style. Steve stripped him down and luckily it was the cam chain tensioner bolt that had come un screwed! The air box had saved the day and contained it. Oh well we can do it all again tomorrow.

Monday, September 24, 2007

All in all it has been a great weekend. It was a class race with all the Euro front runners. I raced hard knocking over two seconds off my qualifying time.It was a real testement to Martin also that his newly built unridden bike could make it to the rostrum. He never saw my race though as he too was riding, finishing a credible 11th.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Had a good race, really went for it from the off.It was just me and Mark Lawes at the front for the whole race. I didnt realise Stephan Meiners was creeping up behind and just pinched 2nd off me as we crossed the line.Not bad when you think the bike had not turned a wheel before yesterday.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Martin has got most things done as well as cooking dinner for everyone! I am hoping that now the yoke is sorted the handling will be transformed.After trying a much harder spring we are trying one a bit softer.Now he just has to put the motor back together and build the bike back up!

Of course with this being a totally new machine we are finding all sorts of things as I push it more and more. The back is still not right, too hard I think.The big problem is the front - under heavy braking the bike does not want to turn. Let the brakes off, no problem.Turns out the bottom yoke is actually touching the frame causing the steering to stick! Managed to qualify 7th though amongst all the Euro regulars.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

I was getting ready to send out the official notifications of Gordon's new owner, and some of his mates thought that everyone deserved to be a winner, so they got to grips with the membership cards.They fought it out and picked who got what. If you are a sponsor member, keep your eye on the post - it might just be a baby shark, coozie, hat or t- shirt.If you get a t-shirt and it doesn't fit pleas pass it on to someone who might appreciate it!

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Here you can see 'The Judge' Johnny Corrin years ago, when we were in the 1989 Belstaff team together. From the left, Trevor Nation, Steve Ives, Johnny Rea Snr. at the back, Johnny Corrin in front of him, then me, together with some other blokes - including Mark Farmer and Ron Haslam!!I would really like to thank all Gordon's special friends for contributing to the project and especially to all the people who bought sponsor memberships, I could not have done the 'Gordon Project' without you.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Alex won the race, Glen won the championship and John Corrin won Gordon.J.C. and I rode together in the Belstaff team in the '80s.He was a very good rider, I wonder if winning Gordon is enough to tempt him back on track...

Here we are at Mallory park waiting for the supermono race so that the winner can pick out the sponsor of Gordon that will win him.Alex Hutchinson on the NWS is on pole with Glen next in 2nd.I will be doing the race commentary with Fred Clarke so I hope it will be an exciting race.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Sunday we will find out who will be getting Gordon, so I am doing a bit of polishing and shining up, so that he looks nice on the special day.

Don't forget if you would like to be part of the 'Gordon' project there is still time to contribute. Each £60 sponsorship will get a membership number that will be included in the draw to win him, click here for more details: Gordon's 100 club

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Well Gordon's membership board is filling up now, with over 70 memberships gone there aren't many left, so hurry to join before Mallory on the 9th of September.

A few of Gordon's mates are keeping an watching eye over the board, the stars indicate someone who hasn't returned their ticket yet!

Gordon will be at Mallory but will not be taking part in the proceedings, so come along and say hi. The membership will be open right up to the start of the race with the draw happening at the prize giving, see you there.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Here is an overview video of the weekend.Fastest in untimed practice, gear linkage broke in timed qualifying, but my out lap was fast enough to secure me 5th place on the grid. Finished second with a best lap time of 1-16.84; not quite as fast as the 1-15-51 I did on a practice day last year on the minimono - but really good for Gordon.

I was fastest in the unofficial practice, but for qualifying I could not believe it!The gear linkage broke right at the start of the session!As a result I only managed to record one out lap.It was good enough for 5th place on the grid just behind pole position.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

We are all set and ready; scrutineering is done.No problems.We just need to know now whether it will be wet or not.It could be a problem when we only have the one set of wheels.Gordon's not all that bothered though, he has already made a couple of new friends in the garage.

Monday, August 06, 2007

It's difficult as Gordon lives in a garage near houses, so if I want to fire him up, I have to take him to a remote pub in the Yorkshire Dales. The customers don't mind as most of them are bikers anyway.I am a bit disheartened to find out that at Donington we only have 2 x 8 minute sessions on track before the race, so that's not many laps to try stuff out - wow.I have not had chance to test the new fork set up and with the limited time we have to test (on the day) I will have to do a bit of guess work and just get on with it!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

I am going to have to spend some time with Gordon - I called at the garage today, and he was in a right grump at having being ignored for the last couple of weeks.When his mates returned home and filled him in with details of the Jawa I had been riding at Most he was feeling a bit left out. I assured him it was just a test and I was looking forward to the next race with him.There are a few jobs to be done before Donington all of which Steve and I will be able to get done over the weekend.We are off up toThe Sun Inn tomorrow night to generate some more interest in his 100 Club and hopefully sell some more membership places. See you up there!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

When it came to the race it was simply a three way dice. I led for the majority of the race, but in the end with a few problems missing gears, I was overpowered by the MZ and the experience of Johannes at his home circuit and was pipped into 2nd place on the last lap.

I am only going to do a couple of laps.Mainly to check the motor as Martin worked long into the night replacing one of the cam buckets that had cracked. Apparently I had over revved the engine when missing gears and done the damage.Got a soft rear on ready for the race so want to preserve that also.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

In second qualifying I continued to test and try different settings. On track with Nico and Johannes I was able to measure and compare their strengths and weaknesses.The MZ is much faster in a straight line but I still managed to hang on to pole position.No sooner was the bike back in the garage than Gordon's mates were swarming all over it.

It's cooler today and a little windy.The forks are better and it means I can push the front more; but with all modifications, this then affects somewhere else. The back end needs more adjustment now.Got pole though, with another 1,50.00 - Father and son MZ riders Johannes and Nico are between me and Libor with Nico the faster just 0.6 behind me.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Here we are in the lovely Czech Republic visiting the castle overlooking Most.

You can just see the circuit in the background.

Bit of a bu$$er, none of our the luggage has got here yet, all four bag are astray, having missed the flight from Amsterdam, that's two Arai RX7RR, and two pairs of leathers. However, I have confidence KLM have never let me down before...

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Gordon is a bit mad with me because I'm off to Most in the Czech Republic to race a works Jawa, the Mali Jawa team invited me over to test one of their machines and I thought the best way to test the bike would be to race it!

It will not be to replace Gordon and the race was not on Gordon's calendar so I've told him not to panic.

It didn't stop some of Gordon's mates help me pack my race gear and I caught this lot trying to get into my Arai helmet carrier.

Thursday, July 05, 2007

I think Gordon looks really good without his clothes on; you can really get to see him and his modifications really well.

Here during his recent test at Silvertsone you can see the design of the 2 into 1 MHP exhaust system, showing the different header pipe lengths. Plus a good shot of the exposed flywheel and re-enforced back plate on the l/h side of the engine.

Friday, June 29, 2007

With the next round of the Supermono Championship being in August I will have loads of time to prep Gordon for it, without me having to rush around like a headless chicken desperately trying to repair him in time.

The sales of his membership are going well but there are still some left if anyone wants join in!

His performance at Pembrey although extremely good highlighted a few issues, but with time now (and for a change) being on my side I should be able to get sorted before Donington.

Project conception

About Me

I've enjoyed 35 continuous years in motorcycle racing having ridden something competitively every season since 1982; picking up 6 separate British Championship titles: 1988 British JuniorStock Champion, 1992 British Supersport 400cc Champion, 1995 British Supersport 600cc Champion, 2004 British Supermono Champion - watercooled. British Historic GP Championship 2014 & 2015.
On the roads I've won the Macau Grand Prix on a ROC 500 and the North West 200 Supersport 600cc race. I'm the last Briton to have won the Imola 200.